Thinking about COVID-19 Scenario in Brazil: The Alternation between the Useful, the Uncertain and the Futile - Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2020;42(9):519-521
The only pandemic comparable to the current event caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the disease called COVID-19, was that of the Spanish Flu in 1918. At that time, with slow and scarce intercontinental transport, diseases spreading infectious diseases were unlikely. Nowadays, on the contrary, the ability to move a highly infectious virus is enormous. Likewise, information, whether scientific or opinionated, moves easily around the world today. Not casually, the term “viralization” is used when any information quickly reverberates through the internet.
In this context, the useful, the uncertain and the futile alternate in published news about COVID-19. And the scientific literature is not shielded from this. It can be said that the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 is for health research today as nothing seems to have been. It is a completely uncontrolled worldwide phenomenon. The scientific community inhales and exhales COVID-19 in 2020. The disease is a fever, not just literally, and we are still looking for a good way to fight it.
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The only pandemic comparable to the current event caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the disease called COVID-19, was that of the Spanish Flu in 1918. At that time, with slow and scarce intercontinental transport, diseases spreading infectious diseases were unlikely. Nowadays, on the contrary, the ability to move a highly infectious virus is enormous. Likewise, information, whether scientific or opinionated, moves easily around the world today. Not casually, the term “viralization” is used when any information quickly reverberates through the internet.
In this context, the useful, the uncertain and the futile alternate in published news about COVID-19. And the scientific literature is not shielded from this. It can be said that the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 is for health research today as nothing seems to have been. It is a completely uncontrolled worldwide phenomenon. The scientific community inhales and exhales COVID-19 in 2020. The disease is a fever, not just literally, and we are still looking for a good way to fight it.
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